Gov. JB Pritzker calls it “ethics” reform.
It’s rare to see city leaders in Chicago take an open, unabashed stance on the collapse of literacy. To complain is deemed as too political, too racist or too anti-public schools. So it’s refreshing to see Willie Wilson, a successful businessman and leader of the black community, call for a literacy initiative “with the goal of getting 100% of Black students reading at grade level.”
While this new advisory referendum could be nothing more than a political distraction, it could also be that lawmakers are gauging Illinoisans’ appetite for another bite at a progressive income tax hike – this time with lower property taxes as a sweetener.
At $1.5 million per job, the new incentive package from the state is at least 15 times the norm. For this much money, the state could have just handed out a million bucks to 827 people, instead of creating 550 jobs.
Ted joined Jeff Daly to discuss the university student protests erupting across the nation on the Israel/Palestine conflict, why it’s so dangerous for society if the media abandons facts in favor of narratives, why that allows government to spin away the problems like crime and financial crises, why it causes the voting public to become apathetic, and more.
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would be nice if in addition to lawmakers we had lawremovers
And lawmaker removers.
How populated would be the halls of government if every election also had, on the ballot, None of the above?
It’s really nice to know that banks cannot legally base hiring decisions on a candidate’s felony theft conviction, or that nursing homes cannot legally base hiring decisions on a candidate’s felony theft, assault, robbery, or (presumably) rape conviction. And I can’t wait to see the circus of 30 year old “rape” allegations go through courts. The mere accusation is conviction in this era of idiocy. We used to at least accept that he-said/she-said contests shouldn’t put a man’s head in a noose. How do you have criminal trials when the most basic question of “did a crime occur?” hinges on… Read more »
We should all get down on our needs and bow in the direction of Springfield, to honor as those that lead us out from the wilderness